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MedTech founders build brilliant technology and expect hospitals to buy their products immediately. Technology fails every day. Clinical, regulatory, and commercial teams work in isolation.  You need an integrator. Brent Lavin fixes this problem by drawing upon 20 years of product management experience to unite these separate teams and build a profitable business. Learn how to turn medical ideas i...

Is the flood of data from wearable technology overwhelming your clinical practice? Many physicians see information from an Apple Watch or Whoop and question its reliability. This continuous stream of medical data, however, represents a new era in medicine. A device on a patient's wrist can now provide the first signal of disease before a scheduled visit. The shift from episodic checkups to co...

Juan C. Jimenez addresses the heart care crisis in the United States where half of all counties have no specialist to read heart scans. There are more monitors than ever but less time to look at the data. Software must help doctors find sickness before it spreads. AccurKardia turns simple heart signals into powerful medical tests, finding kidney failure and valve issues using current watches and p...

Nathan Friedman spent two decades at medical giant W.L. Gore before walking away to solve a problem that affects one in ten femoral access procedures: visual inspections to find internal bleeding often miss the issue until a patient loses nearly a liter of blood. Nathan founded HemaSense to replace this manual method with a wearable patch that detects subcutaneous bleeding in real-time through imp...

Patients often endure lengthy, multi-hour cardiac surgeries, only to return home with minimal support or clear guidance on detecting serious, serious complications, leaving them, and their physicians, in a precarious state of uncertainty regarding their health and next steps.  This alarming gap in post-discharge care, where individuals are essentially sent home with "pretty much nothing"...

How did a cardiologist's personal ECG vision, initially dismissed as a "toy," spark a global healthcare revolution?  Today’s episode explores the fascinating and hugely impactful professional journey of Dr. David Albert, AliveCor’s Founder and Chief Medical Officer, starting with his foresight for portable ECGs in 1996, where he envisioned wireless cardiac monitoring. While early pr...

ROUNDS is a podcast where healthcare meets innovation. Featuring founders, clinicians, researchers, and creators, we explore medtech, digital health, and the future of care—while expanding into stories of bold thinkers and disruptive ideas across all industries. Rounds, Rounds Media LLC, Joseph Hashim